From data science to fact checking we talk today about the pursuit of objective and indisputable “truth.” Whether through the dogged work of human fact checkers chasing down references and reviewing ...

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...

I was disappointed by Michael P. Lynch’s “Who Cares About the Truth?” (The Chronicle Review, September 10). The essay seemed to me to be both misguided and wasted on your audience. I am confident that ...

Before Sally Yates addressed a room full of librarians and library workers at the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference in Philadelphia, she did her usual Google research. She found quotes on ...

Whenever someone asks me why media coverage of President Trump is so negative — and it is, irrefutably — I respond with some version of this: There is a fundamental disconnect between reporters and ...

Pope Leo XIV said the principal threat facing both religion and science today is the denial of the existence of objective truth. He made this statement on May 11 during an audience granted to members ...

In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because ...

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I must admit that the term “personal truth” was alien to me when I first heard it a decade or so ago. My education held truth to be objective and independent of personal beliefs. Truth was regarded as ...